Marvel's gay gunslinger

[Krug]

http://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/12/09/rawhide.kid.gay/index.html

 

[Dagger75]

An openly gay character named Rawhide. Gotta love that.

I got some names for his ummmm... sidekick but Eric's grandma might not like them.

 

[jdavis]

Well that makes my head hurt. I'm sure it will be fabulous. I'll have to e-mail my token gay friend in California to ask if this is offensive or just silly. He works at DisneyLand so I'm sure he will have a opinion on campy gay cowboy comics.

 

[Chun-tzu]

I read about this at Newsarama. A lot of the posters there think the biggest problem is who they've got writing this mini. Few of the posters familiar with his work (I'm not) have any confidence in Zimmerman's writing talents.

 

[Henry]

At the risk of sounding homophobic, it feels like someone just hocked a loogie on my childhood.

I grew up reading that character!

I'll point out three things that keep my eyes bulged out:

"...writer for the "Howard Stern Show."

"...Rawhide Kid comments about the Lone Ranger:"

...the first edition (is called) "Rawhide Kid: Slap Leather"

 

[Dinkeldog]

I'd never heard of him before.

Personally, I'd rather that they made him a superhero and kept all that campy crap out. Still can't be taken seriously. At least there's still Northstar.

 

[Henry]

I dug up some Web links to the original Rawhide Kid, for anyone interested:

http://www.toonopedia.com/rawhide.htm

http://www.samcci.comics.org/rawhidekid-001-030.htm

http://www.marveldirectory.com/individuals/r/rawhidekid.htm

 

[ColonelHardisson]

Stern is a comic book and scifi fan, so it's not too surprising a writer who's worked for him is doing something like this. However, even he voiced objections to this on his show this morning. Personally, I think it's interesting. I was never a big fan of the Rawhide Kid; he was just a tad before my time, and I liked the Lone Ranger better anyway.

 

[Jamdin]

So this is basically Marvel's answer to DC's gay supporting character from the Green Lantern title. I read a few of the Rawhide Kid's comics back in the 1970s & liked them well enough. I'm not so sure making him gay is so great. Couldn't they come up with an original cowboy character & make him gay instead?

 

[jdavis]

So I e-mailed my "token" Gay friend in California to ask his opinion on if this was offensive or just silly. I'll just paste his e-mail below.
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His name is Rawhide... and he runs around in a cowboy outfit. That's what we call a Tuesday in West Hollywood. I'm sure some people will be all a-flutter at the thought that R.K. will be bottoming for a different super villain each issue. I wonder if he'll have other super-heroes to hang out with like an Indian, a Construction Worker, a Leather Daddy, and a Navy Man.

In the end, it will probably be about as progressive as "Blacula" in the struggle for civil rights.

G
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There you have it, the opinion of a gay man on the new Marvel comic.